D 1118
6/12/61
#22
Benny Barnes, “Yearning”
Mercury 71806
7/17/61
#15 Country
Frankie Miller,
rerelease of
#82 Pop
“Blackland Farmer”
Starday 424
10/30/61
#53
Gene Thomas,
Venus 1439/
“Sometime”
United Artists 338
3/9/63
#14
Country Johnny Mathis,
United Artists 536
“Please Talk to My Heart”
10/12/63
#89
Joe Hinton, “Better to Give Than Receive”
Back Beat 539
8/15/64
#13
Joe Hinton, “Funny (How Time Slips Away)”
Back Beat 541
1/30/65
#34
Joe Hinton, “I Want a Little Girl”
Back Beat 545
1/30/65
#30
Lee Lamont, “The Crying Man”
Back Beat 542
4/3/65
#13
Sir Douglas Quintet, “She’s About a Mover”
Tribe 8308
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date
artist and song/lp
label
position
6/5/65
#36
Junior Parker, “Crying for My Baby”
Duke 389
7/24/65
#6 R&B
O. V. Wright,
Back Beat 548
#86 Pop
“You’re Gonna Make Me Cry”
9/4/65
#1 R&B
Roy Head & The Traits,
Back Beat 546
#2 Pop
“Treat Her Right”
11/16/65
#7 R&B
Jimmy McCracklin,
Imperial 66129
#95 Pop
“Think”
11/20/65
#32
Roy Head & The Traits, “Apple of My Eye”
Back Beat 555
1/2/66
#8 R&B
Bobby Bland,
Duke 393
#62 Pop
“I’m Too Far Gone (to Turn Around)”
1/29/66
#31
Sir Douglas Quintet, “The Rains Came”
Tribe 8314
2/26/66
#47
Pozo Seco Singers, “Time”
Edmark/Columbia
3/26/66
#99
Roy Head & The Traits, “My Babe”
Back Beat 560
?/66
#110
Roy Head & The Traits,
Back Beat 563
“Wigglin’ and Gigglin’”
3/17/66
#95
Roy Head & The Traits,
Back Beat 571
“To Make a Big Man Cry”
8/20/66
#25
Buddy Ace,
Duke 397
“Nothing in the World Can Hurt Me”
12/10/66
#13
Bobby Bland,
Duke 412
“Back in the Same Old Bag Again”
12/24/66
#27
Junior Parker, “Man or Mouse”
Duke 413
2/11/67
#33
Buddy Ace, “Hold On (To This Old Fool)”
Duke 414
4/15/67
#6 R&B
Bobby Bland,
Duke 416
#88 Pop
“You’re All I Need”
4/22/67
#4 R&B
O. V. Wright,
Back Beat 580
#80 Pop
“Eight Men, Four Women”
8/12/67
#25
O. V. Wright, “Heartaches, Heartaches”
Back Beat 583
8/26/67
#48
Junior Parker, “I Can’t Put My Finger on It”
Mercury 72699
11/25/67
#19
John Roberts, “Sockin’ 1-2-3-4”
Duke 425
2/24/68
#23 R&B
Bobby Bland,
Duke 432
#96 Pop
“Driftin’ Blues”
2/15/69
#14
Bubble Puppy,
International
“Hot Smoke & Sassafras”
Artists 128
1969
#176 Bubble
Puppy,
International
A Gathering Of Promises
Artists IALP10
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date
artist and song/lp
label
position
5/27/72
#15
Little Royal, “Jealous”
Tri-Us 912
7/14/73
#88
Little Royal, “I’m Glad to Do It”
Tri-Us 916
10/27/73
#5 R&B
Bobby Bland,
Dunhill/ABC 4369
#42 Pop
“This Time I’m Gone for Good”
1/11/75
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17540
#1 Pop
“Before the Next Teardrop Falls”
3/1/1975
#20
Donnie King, “Mathilda”
Warner Bros. 8074
6/21/75
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17558
#8 Pop
“Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”
10/4/75
#10 Country
Freddy Fender,
GRT 031
#45 Pop
“Since I Met You Baby”
10/11/75
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17585
#20 Pop
“Secret Love”
1975
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot
#20 Pop
Before the Next Teardrop Falls
11/8/75
#72
Donnie King, “I’m a Fool to Care”
Warner Bros. 8145
1976
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot
#41 Pop
Are You Ready for Freddy
1976
#10 Freddy
Fender,
Since I Met You Baby
ABC/Dot
1/10/76
#13
Freddy Fender, “Wild Side of Life”
GRT 039
2/7/76
#1 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17607
#32 Pop
“You’ll Lose a Good Thing”
5/22/76
#7 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17627
#59 Pop
“Vaya Con Dios”
7/31/76
#91
Donnie King,
Warner Bros. 8229
“Stop the World (and Let Me Off )”
9/18/76
#2 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot 17652
#72 Pop
“Living It Down”
10/16/76
#100
Doug Sahm, “Cowboy Peyton Place”
ABC/Dot 17656
11/20/76
#3
8
Asleep At The Wheel,
Capitol 5347
“Miles and Miles of Texas”
1976
#3 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC/Dot
#59 Pop
Rock ’N’ Country
3/19/77
#4
Freddy Fender, “The Rains Came” /
ABC/Dot 17686
“Sugar Coated Love”
7/30/77
#11
Freddy Fender, “If You Don’t Love Me
ABC/Dot 17713
(Why Don’t You Just Leave Me Alone)”
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date
artist and song/lp
label
position
11/26/77
#18
Freddy Fender, “Think about Me”
ABC/Dot 17730
1977
#4 Freddy
Fender,
If You’re Ever in Texas
ABC/Dot
1977
#4 Freddy
Fender,
ABC/Dot
The Best of Freddy Fender
3/11/78
#34
Freddy Fender, “If You’re Looking for a Fool”
ABC 12339
6/17/78
#13 Country
Freddy Fender,
ABC 12370
#103 Pop
“Talk to Me”
11/4/78
#26
Freddy Fender, “I’m Leaving It All Up to You”
ABC 12415
1978
#34
Freddy Fender, If You Don’t Love Me
ABC/Dot 2090
2/17/79
#22
Freddy Fender, “Walking Piece of Heaven”
ABC 12453
6/23/79
#22
Freddy Fender, “Yours”
Starfl ite 4900
10/13/79
#61
Freddy Fender, “Squeeze Box”
Starfl ite 4904
1979
#44
Freddy Fender, Swamp Gold
ABC
1/12/80
#83
Freddy Fender, “My Special Prayer”
Starfl ite 4906
4/5/80
#82
Freddy Fender, “Please Talk to My Heart”
Starfl ite 4908
2/19/83
#87
Freddy Fender, “Chokin’ Kind”
Warner 29794
10/8/88
#97
Don Lafl eur, “Beggars Can’t Be Choosers”
Worth 102
1989
#5 Gavin Jazz
Kellye Gray, Standards In Gray
Justice
1990
#1 Gavin Jazz
Sebastian Whittaker, First Outing
Justice
1990
#10 Gavin Jazz Harry Sheppard, Viva Brazil
Justice
1990
#1 Gavin Jazz
David Catney, First Flight
Justice
1990
#3 Gavin Jazz
Tony Campise, First Takes
Heart Music
1991
#24 Gavin AAA Erich Avinger, Sí
Heart Music
1991
#1 Gavin Jazz
Herb Ellis, Roll Call
Justice
1991
#15 Gavin Jazz Harry Sheppard,
Justice
This-a-Way, That-a-Way
1991
#4 Gavin Jazz
Various Artists,
Justice
Tribute to Emily Remler, Vol. One
1991
#1 Gavin Jazz
Stefan Karlsson, Room 292
Justice
1991
#7 Gavin Jazz
Various Artists,
Justice
Tribute to Emily Remler, Vol. Two
1991
#1 Gavin Jazz
Sebastian Whittaker,
Justice
Searchin’ for the Truth
1991
#20 Gavin Jazz King & Moore, Impending Bloom
Justice
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date
artist and song/lp
label
position
1992
#1 Gavin Jazz
Stefan Karlsson, The Road Not Taken
Justice
1992
#1 Gavin Jazz
David Catney, Jade Visions
Justice
1992
#3 Gavin AAA
Tab Benoit, Nice and Warm
Justice
1992
#3 Gavin Jazz
Tony Campise,
Heart Music
#19 Billboard
Once in a Blue Moon
Jazz
1992
#10 Gavin Jazz Harry Sheppard, Points of View
Justice
1992
#1 Gavin Jazz
Sebastian Whittaker, One for Bu
Justice
1993
#1 Gavin Jazz
Stefan Karlsson, Below Zero
Justice
1993
#3 Gavin Jazz
David Catney, Reality Road
Justice
1993
#19 Gavin Jazz Tony Campise,
Heart Music
Ballads, Blues, & Bebop
2/24/94
#8
Elsa Garcia,
Discos MM/
“Ni Mas, Ni Menos”
Capitol-EMI Latin
6/2/94
#42 Elsa
Garcia,
Discos MM/
Ni Mas, Ni Menos
Capitol-EMI Latin
ca. early
#37
The Hometown Boys,
Discos MM/
1995
Tres Ramitas
Fonovisa
6/24/95
#39
The Hometown Boys,
Discos MM/
“Mire Amigo”
Fonovisa
9/22/95
#25
The Hometown Boys,
Discos MM/
Mire Amigo
Fonovisa
1996
#17 Gavin Jazz Kellye Gray, Tomato Kiss
Proteus
1996
#3 Gavin Jazz
Joe Locascio, A Charmed Life
Heart Music
1997
#11 Gavin Jazz Elias Haslanger, For The Moment
Heart Music
1998
#4 Gavin Jazz
Elias Haslanger, Kicks Are for Kids
Heart Music
9/25/99
#33
Destiny’s Child, “Bugaboo”
Columbia
1999
#5 Destiny’s
Child,
Columbia
The Writing’s on the Wall
9/23/00
#1
Destiny’s Child, “Independent Women Part 1” Columbia
3/17/01
#2
Destiny’s Child, “Survivor”
Columbia
2001
#1
Destiny’s Child, Survivor
Columbia
6/9/2001
#1
Destiny’s Child, “Bootylicious”
Columbia
9/17/01
#8 Rap
Minott, featuring Kurupted Seed,
World Beat
#16 R&B
“Playa Playa (Playing the Game Right)”
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date
artist and song/lp
label
position
9/29/01
#10
Destiny’s Child, “Emotion”
Columbia
11/17/01
#14
Clay Walker, Say No More
Giant
1/19/02
#4
Mack 10,
Cash Money/
Bang or Ball
Universal
2002
#25 Destiny’s
Child,
This Is the Remix [album, UK] Columbia
2002
#57
Michelle Williams, Heart to Yours
Columbia
2003
#1 Beyoncé
Knowles,
Columbia
Dangerously in Love
6/2003
#57
Beyoncé Knowles, “Dangerously in Love 2”
Columbia
10/23/04
#3 Clay
Walker,
A Few Questions
RCA
II. Selected regional hit singles recorded or
mixed at Gold Star/SugarHill Studios
Those which did not register on the national charts yet
had signifi cant regional popularity, grouped by decade
1940s
Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Short Haired Woman”
Gold Star 3131
Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Unsuccessful Blues”
Gold Star 656A
Aubrey Gass, “Kilroy’s Been Here”
Gold Star 1318
1950s
James O’Gwynn, “Losing Game”
Starday 266
James O’Gwynn, “Muleskinner Blues”
Mercury 71066
James O’Gwynn, “Two Little Hearts”
Mercury 71234
Link Davis, “Sixteen Chicks”
Starday 235
Albert Collins, “The Freeze”
Kangaroo 103
1960s
C.L. & The Pictures, “For the Sake of Love”
Kirk 635
Champagne Brothers, “Stranger to You”
Typhoon 2002
Champagne Brothers, “It’s Raining”
Typhoon 2003
Charlie Booth, “Fishin’ Fits”
Lori 9534
Sleepy LaBeef, “Tore Up”
Wayside 1654
Johnny Copeland, “Down on Bending Knees”
Golden Eagle 101
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Johnny Williams, “Long Black Veil”
Pic 1 105
B. J. Thomas & The Triumphs, “Garner State Park”
Joed 117
Neal Ford & The Fanatics, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”
Tantara 1104
The Bad Seeds, “All Night Long”
J-Beck 1004
Zakary Thaks, “Face to Face”
J-Beck 1009
1970s
Tommy McLain, “Jukebox Songs”
Crazy Cajun 2027
Warren Storm, “King of the Dance Halls”
Crazy Cajun
1980s
Kelly Schoppa, “Amarillo by Morning”
Bellaire
Kelly Schoppa, “Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind”
Bellaire
Tommy McLain, “Daddy Said Roses Don’t Grow Here Anymore”
Crazy Cajun 2087
Little Joe y La Familia, “Cuatro Caminos”
Leon
1990s
Jerry Rodriguez & Mercedes, “El Pinguino”
Capitol/EMI Latin
David Olivares and XS, “She’s About a Mover”
Fonovisa
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